Notes on Contributors
JosÉ Manuel Correoso-Rodenas holds a PhD in English (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain), and he is currently an Assistant Professor of English at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain). His areas of interest and research are mainly gothic literature and Native American studies. His recent publications include: Flannery O'Connor y la literatura gótica (2021) and "The Hybrid (Gothic) Categories of Manifest Destiny (Vols. 1–6)" (2022). He has also edited the volume Teaching Language and Literature On and Off-Canon (2020). Currently, he is a member of the Research Group "Poetics and Emerging Textualities: 19th to 21st Centuries" (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), the Research Group "Multidisciplinary Studies in Literature and Art –LyA-" (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha), and the Research Group Network "Aglaya: Cultural Myth-Criticism 2020–2," sponsored by the regional government of Madrid.
Lesley Ginsberg is Professor of English at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS). With Monika M. Elbert, she co-edited Romantic Education in Nineteenth-Century American Literature: National and Transatlantic Contexts (2015). Her recent publications include book chapters on Hawthorne (2018), Poe (2019), and Mary Austin (2021). Her teaching has been recognized by the UCCS Outstanding Teaching Award-Online Teaching Category (2021) and the MLA-EBSCO Prize for Information Literacy (2021). In the 2023–24 academic year, she will teach nineteenth-century American literature at the University of Tokyo, Aoyama Gakuin University, and Sophia University in Japan as a U.S. Fulbright Scholar Lecturer.
Susan S. Williams is Professor and Chair of English at Ohio State University, where she teaches courses on literature and law, literature and leadership, and nineteenth-century U.S. literature and culture. Her books include Confounding Images: Photography and Portraiture in Antebellum American Fiction (1997) and Reclaiming Authorship: Literary Women in America, 1850–1900 (2006). She has also published articles and book chapters focused on works by Louisa May Alcott, Maria Susanna Cummins, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Elizabeth Keckley, Edgar Allan Poe, James Redpath, and Susan Warner, among others. She has received grants and fellowships from the American Antiquarian Society, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Coca-Cola Critical Difference for Women fund, and the American Council of Learned Societies. At Ohio State, she served as Vice Provost for faculty affairs from 2009–2014 and Vice Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences from 2014–2018.
